For people who roughed it through the Saturn for the whole console generation, were you ultimately satisfied with your purchase? We know many of the Saturn's best games were stuck in Japan and it eventually stopped getting compelling multiplats altogether. I never owned a Saturn but any console that plays MMX4 or RE1 is acceptable in my book.
i'm confused. never owned a saturn but somehow two games you know of make the saturn acceptable in your book so i guess it's not that bad then? that's a confusing cringe, yikes and wtf from me dawg.
>>12477815My friend had a Saturn. We used to go over to his place to play Virtua Cop but nothing else was really exciting so we stopped going over and played at my friend’s that had a PS1 instead.My friend with the Saturn later got addicted to heroin and ended up OD’ing a year or two after high school, so maybe the Saturn wasn’t the best choice…
>>12477815It was good, better arcade games than ps1 and 64, and more pick up and play stuff too. Saturn is great.
>>12477815If you were a kid it depends on how rich your parents were, because most kids wouldn't get many new games per year so even a console with a smaller library would have enough games to keep you entertained, even though from mid-97 onwards you would basically be completely disconnected from the latest buzz. What sucks is that halfway through the gen you either got a Dreamcast or you were shit out of luck.
>>12477815It was great. I have nothing but fond memories of my Saturn. I used to take it to my aunt's house when we'd go visit and play it on the TV in her sunroom. I didn't live a cardboard box though, so I also had a PS1, an N64 and later a Dreamcast. The only thing I do regret is that I sold it all at some point. Can't even remember the when or why, but I had a decently-sized collection and a bunch of accessories like the Virtua Gun, but it all went at some point.
>>12477815Pretty good. It's a great console with lots of awesome games available for it. What's not to love?
>>12477815The first 32 bit console I ever played was a Sega Saturn, an often misunderstood machine, I had one since the 90s, its a machine with literally hundreds of hidden gems because a LOT of games never saw life outside of Japan!
>>12477815Capcom gaems already pirated on PCs but that one month exclusivity tomb raider made the pc cucks jelly as fuck
>>12477840>better arcade games than ps1Hahaha
>>12477940Ridge racer, Tekken 3, Time crisis, King of fighters, marvel vs Capcom, gradius gaiden, harmful park . Saturn never had a chance
I was originally thinking of getting a PC-FX but ended up getting a Saturn instead. Good times, good times.
>>12477815Owning a Saturn was pretty great. There were a bunch of fun games on it that I didn't have on my Playstation. We played through Guardian Heroes so many times I couldn't begin to count.
>>12477973Daytona USA > Ridge RacerVirtua Fighter > TekkenVirtua Cop > Time CrisisSaturn KoF ports > PS1 KoF portsSaturn Marvel ports > PS1 Marvel portsDarius Gaiden > Gradius GaidenCotton 2 > Harmful Park
>>12478049>Daytona USA > Ridge RacerAbsolutely not>Virtua Fighter > TekkenAbsolutely not>Virtua Cop > Time CrisisAbsolutely not>Saturn KoF ports > PS1 KoF portsYes>Saturn Marvel ports > PS1 Marvel portsYes>Darius Gaiden > Gradius GaidenDebatable, they're pretty close IMO>Cotton 2 > Harmful ParkAbsolutely not
>>12478049Real>>12478058Nope
>>12477940Presenting the greatest arcade game ever.
>>12477815>For people who roughed it through the Saturn for the whole console generationSoooo I didn't own one during it's initial run but was given one around early '00. It was a god send for me as the games were dirt cheap and I built up a pretty impressive fun library of games before the prices went full retard.
>>12478049>Daytona USA > Ridge Racernah>Virtua Fighter > Tekkennah>Virtua Cop > Time Crisisnah>Saturn KoF ports > PS1 KoF portsyeah>Saturn Marvel ports > PS1 Marvel portsyeah>Darius Gaiden > Gradius Gaidenyeah>Cotton 2 > Harmful Parkyeah
>>12477815i went from Saturn to N64 so i didn't really miss out on PS1 games.
when you're a kid in the 90's you can barely afford 10 games on any given machine unless your parents are rich. for most people, library density is a non-issue. nowadays everything is digital and cheap so people buy 800 games of which they barely play 10% and only finish 2%.
>>12478227Yes you did?
>>12478242my point is i had enough games to play and i didn't really care about Sony's exclusives.
>>12477815it was really cool at the time when it was new.we had one along with Daytona USA, Sega Rally, Solar Eclipse, Bug Too!, Darius Gaiden, and Clockwork Knight. I remember playing these and being stunned by the graphics. The games felt futuristic and were unusual games i hadn't seen before on any other console which made them more interesting too.we only had a SNES before the saturn and it was right before we got an N64 so it was a big leap forward.
>>12478247Imagine thinking shit like Bug is good, holy cope
I imagine it mustve been a very bizarre experience. When I was a kid in the 90s, nobody even knew Saturn existed. It was like the genesis was there, then Sega disappeared, and then they made this big return at the end of the decade with the dreamcast. Saturn was the sort of thing that normie kids didn't know about unless they were really into gaming magazines or whatever, think along the lines of the jaguar. I don't even ever remember seeing any saturn games in stores.
>>12477815>>12477862>>12477861Saturn had a lot of soul even back then too, they put a lot of effort into intros and cutscenes.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6V6BKk4ZS3ghttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UQVTpm-S_Qghttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9GxDbbEsb3Ihttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6PqjBPGAFo0>>12478256Bug Too! is not the same as Bug
>>12478256>dude has been malding at Sega for 35 yearswhat a life
>>12478259That's complete bullshit. t. actual 90s kid (unlike you who was born in the 90s)
>>12478278he's probably from the third world
>>12478282Lol third worlders were the only ones that give a fuck about sega, you got that mixed up
>>12478269Serious question, is Bug Too significantly better than Bug? I had the original as a kid and even in the mid 90s, the game was severely underwhelming so I remember actually joking about the fact that they made a sequel and added a little-brother “too” at the end of the time.But I never saw anything about it and just assumed it was a Clockwork Knight type sequel.
>>12477839>My friend with the Saturn later got addicted to heroin and ended up OD’ing a year or two after high school, so maybe the Saturn wasn’t the best choice…Sneaky japanese and their advanced psychological warfare
>>12478287Meanwhile everyone who owned the Japanese console, Playstation was a Chad... curious
>>12478282No, America. Never recall ever seeing any saturn stuff in stores, while there were plenty of PS1/N64 shelves. Didn't know anyone who had a Saturn. Didn't even know it existed.
>>12478286Yes Bug Too! is an amazing platformer even by today's standards.Has some really cool and original level designs, music, and nice sprites too."Bug Too! features three playable characters, a run button, superior graphics, better controls, and a save feature, though it is often considered to have higher, more frustrating difficulty."
>>12478282I'm telling you he was born in the 1990s and thinks he's somehow not a zoomer.
>>12478298right he dreams himself as a 80's kid from Ohio who got into the wrong decade through the backrooms
>>12478298'87 babby and I absolutely remember the Saturn when it was out. Played it on store kiosks all the time. Now the TG-16 is one I do not recall at all but absolutely remember seeing Bonk as a kid. Probably in ads only.
>>12477815No one who has a saturn "roughed it" silly child. And those of us who weren't retarded EOPs had no problem with games being "stuck".
People engage in this weird revisionism pretending they never heard of the Saturn until they discovered YouTube. I get that the system was a failure but you don't have to pretend more than that.
>>12478296>Bug Too! is an amazing platformer even by today's standardsI love the Saturn but this is simply a retarded statement.
>>12478286>Serious question, is Bug Too significantly better than Bug?It's an evolution, not a revolution. Less annoying levels, richer graphics, much better sound (some of the cd audio tracks are crazy good and I listen to them to this day). There's also the run button and the 3 different characters who really play the same.So it's not "significantly" better, but if you ever had just a single ounce of fun with the first game, then you'd find the sequel a lot more enjoyable. If you didn't, you'd just consider it more of the same.
i think gaming magazines smitten with 3D overlooked the fact that the typical 9 year old gamer back then didn't know the difference
>>12478398You're right, it was retarded considering today's platformers are actually complete garbage.Not really any innovation or anything interesting in them, they usually just come off as cash grabs.
>>12478674Do platformers haven't changed since their inception I guess.
I always thought Saturn owners were rich kids whose parents could easily get them another console (i.e. PS).
>>12478417>overlooked the fact that the typical 9 year old gamer back then didn't know the differenceI could absolutely tell the difference between Bug Too and Mario 64 when I was 9 years old.To be honest neither of them could grab my attention as much as Yoshi's Island or Sonic 2 did. Mario 64 was too imprecise and I was fighting the shit 3d controls and camera half the time, Bug Too just had stupid long levels and brutal difficulty. I was playing mostly X-Men, VF2, Baku Baku, and Sim City 2000 on my Saturn. Dropped all of them pretty fast once I got a PC though.
>>12478049>Virtua Fighter > Tekken
>>12477815I loved owning one, it had tons of good games for it. I still kept playing my NES, SNES, Game Gear and Genesis too, so it wasn't like I was hurting for games either.
>>12478674Just because you do something different doesn't make it automatically good or fun to play. Both Bug 1 and 2 were objectively trash.
>>12479204I respect your bad opinion."Overview>95% liked this video gameGoogle usersBug Too! is a platform game developed by Realtime Associates and SegaSoft. It is the sequel to Bug!, which was developed and published by Realtime Associates and Sega. It was first released for the Sega Saturn on December 6, 1996, in North America. Wikipedia"
>>12479334Search Bug 2 reviews, the game was scored poorly by almost all outlets. Just because a few users on google say they like it doesn't change that the game was janky trash.
NTA but if you're using gaming journalists as a metric then you're lost.
>>12479338it's for a finer taste
>>12477815More satisfied than I imagined possible at the time. Since it was the less popular system, I got so many titles for cheap on clearance racks. The crowd I was around also loved the system and also was in its ecosystem. Even new people I've met randomly that was a Saturn owner in its day knew to import as well for its time to access some of the best games. The Saturn is clearly in my top 5 non-PC/portable gaming systems.
>>12477815I really don't remember seeing any Saturns around in any store, but I do remember it had tons of commercials on all the time. Nor do I know of anyone that actually owned one.
I've always been under the impression that the core audience for the Saturn in America was working, young adult video game enthusiasts who could afford to own all the major consoles and were willing to import games. Is that not the case? Children and casual gamers just bought a PlayStation.
>>12477840>better arcade games than ps1
>>12479761yea man virtua cop daytona radiant silvergun kills it
>>12479806>daytona>Saturn port
>>12479823imo great game
>>12479828Terrible port
>>12479830is it? lol imo its great
>>12479637That and Sega fans who only gamed on Sega.
>>12478259This is probably just a product of me being from a poor neighborhood but the Saturn was almost like a mythological creature growing up, little more than a playground rumor. One kid claimed to have one but that it had been stolen when his house was broken into (his house was never broken into) another claimed his cousin had one but it turned out to be a Game Gear. We had all grown up on Mega Drives so we were dying to see what Sonic would be like on this fabled Saturn, little did we know there wasn't one. Then one day everyone suddenly had Playstations and nobody talked about the Saturn ever again, it wasn't until college that I met someone who had one growing up.Looking back this was probably all due to Sega's piss poor handling of distribution to retailers, unless you caught it near launch it just wasn't something you'd see on store shelves anywhere.
>>12479806Tony Hawk.
>>12479823>>12479828>>12479830It plays perfectly, the graphics are rougher and the badger's arse! The they did the "Championship Circuit Edition" with improved graphics but they messed with the gameplay, the one thing that wasn't broken!
>>12479845>comes out half a decade later>5 years of twiddling thumbscount on you to bet after a race!
The saturn RE1 port is pretty sick. Got a fun extra arcade mode and GOLD TYRANT. As well as new enemies for the underground so it's not just more hunters. I think it's neat.
>>12479984Dithered water makes it unplayable
>>12480005And atrocious load time
>>12480005It has some negatives for sure, but I still like it. Not so much a saturn guy as I am an Re1 CHAD so I'll play any of the versions
>>12479637Can confirm, I was in my 20s and ordered import games from an American store called National Console Support
>>12480007It's a bit slower compared to PSX but the difference isn't huge>>12480005There are like 2 rooms and 1 item affected by this; plus it's better on a CRTI wonder if one day we'll get a fan made port of RE2 (like was planned), similar to the Tomb Raider 2 port currently in the works
>>12479637>the only people who bothered to buy a saturn also bought a n64 and psxNot the flex you think it is
>>12479806>daytona>kills itlmao
>Saturn Mega Man X4If it had some exclusive content it would be worth checking out. Maybe actual proper final stages, MMX4's endgame goes by in the blink of an eye, aside from the fight with General which takes fucking forever as Zero.
>>12479937The Saturn didn't even exist 5 years later so I see this as a win for Playstation
>>12480294The Saturn was still getting games in 99 and 2000 in Japan
>>12480294By then I was dreamcastin'
>>12479847There are three versions of Daytona USA for the Saturn. The original, Championship Circuit Edition and then just Circuit Edition, which was Japan-exclusive and fixed the shitty handling, pushed out the draw distance even further, re-added the arcade soundtrack and has a time of day setting allowing you to race at dusk or night. It's the definitive version and as usual filthy gaijin got cucked.
>>12477815I knew only one kid at my school who had the Saturn, and he got bullied so fucking hard when we it was announced that Sonic X-Treme got cancelled
>>12480370>It's the definitive versionWell, it's the definitive Saturn version. The arcade/PS3 version is probably better cause of 60fps.
>>12480370>which was Japan-exclusiveIt actually came out in the US as the NetLink Edition, though it was only available from Sega's online store.
>>12480401Saturn kids were living in the future.It can still be played online with some additional setup apparently, saw someone do it like last year.
>>12480401>NetLink EditionKinda unrelated, but I wonder how many people passed up on a ridiculous pay day due to passing up on a NetLink Edition they thought was just a regular Daytona.
>>12480408>Saturn kids were living in the future.no. they were promised the future and instead given pure slop. the internet is a great idea at the time but the system wasn't built for it since sega went hardcore jewish on ram. couldn't save anything. most webpages were broken or rendered weirdly to fit on a lowres display. it was like early mobile phone internet but on a tv. no refunds.
>>12480589one man's slop is another man's soul
>>12480456>I wonder how many people passed up on a ridiculous paymost gamers don't think like that. only jewish collectors>day due to passing up on a NetLink Edition they thought was just a regular Daytona.they saw:>sega saturn>daytonaand tried not to vomit. daytona on saturn got a bad reputation so are you surprised people wouldn't care?
Saturn was the console I only read about in magazines when I was a kid. Never played one as a kid, never even saw one. At 18 I worked at a mom and pop videogame store and there were some defective Saturns there, still, was never able to play, buty curiosity about it never went away. Now, I'm 38 and decided to say fuck it and got a Saturn.What a lovely, soulful and we'll put together machine.I think if I had one back in the day, I would have loved it to death.
>>12481102Based
>>12481102nice
>>12481102i finally got a Mega Drive a few weeks ago, the only Sega console aside from S-1000 i didn't own back then.i'm re-equipping my lonely forgotten Dreamcast as of now and next i'll do like you with a Saturn.It looks pristine, congrats.
>>12481102for me it's the OG xbox. I got one and to my surprise was pre-soft modded. I did some modding to the console with various things and got it going with a new hard drive. Honestly surprise what I missed out. absolutely love racing games but somehow never played Project gotham racing or midtown madness 3. And surprised how much I loved both.
>>12483186You had a Master System, Saturn, and Dreamcast but not a Mega Drive?
>>12478240Well the whole point of CD was that it would make the games cheaper. Plenty of kids I knew had dozens of PSX and later PS2 games. They were sold cheaply brand new, even cheaper used, and with such popular consoles many great games became Greatest Hits.Hell, my family was pretty firmly "just barely getting by" status but I still ended up with something like 25 GCN games by the end.
>>12483205yep, even a Game Gear. truth is my dad bought me a MS and a Game Gear but i never asked for consoles back then, i didn't care that much about gaming it's just something that happened and i was more about actual toys. only a few years later i decided i wanted to get serious about it.
>>12481102>Now, I'm 38 and decided to say fuck it and got a Saturn.Hello same age anon. Great choice. >What a lovely, soulful and we'll put together machine.It really is. It gets shit on way more than it should. Absolute sovl. >I think if I had one back in the day, I would have loved it to death.This was me >>12478220 so I didn't own one when it was new but only a few years after. Have been on and off gaming on a Saturn ever since and recently started diving into the jap library. Last thing I played was the translated Bulk Slash. Highly recommend you check it out.
>>12481102congrats, i was fortunate enough to have had the chance to play one when i was younger but not for very long because my brothers poured water into it or something.these past few years, i've always had one though. then i've got the cart that allows burned game discs to be played too.
